LEVER, Stanley Edmond
| Service Number: | 2679 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 57th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 24 September 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2679, 57th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
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| 2 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2679, 57th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Andreena Hockley
"Killed in action in France, Private S. E. Lever, No. 2679, 57th Battalion, formerly a manual-arts student at the Melbourne High School.
The following information is supplied by his brother, Mr. James Lever, of 14 Ewart-street, Malvern: "He enlisted on the 19th of July, 1916, and sailed for England on the 14th of October in the same year.
Arriving in the Old Country, he went into training to qualify as a Signaller. The course took six months.
In July, 1917, he sailed for France and joined up with his unit. On the 18th of September of that year, he wrote his last communication to his relatives, saying the company was to take part in an attack. From private sources, we learn that he was sent out as a runner, his duty being to carry messages to Brigade Head-quarters, a very dangerous service, as he had to pass through the enemy's barrage.
After leaving the line, he was never seen again, and no official information has come to hand except the report 'killed in action.'"
The date of his death was the 24th of September, 1917."
Source: The Education Department's Record of War Service, Victoria, 1914-1919.
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